UPDATE – APRIL PART TWO

WHITE-ANTING OF AUSTRALIA BY SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS TO BE EXPOSED AT TAREE FORUM

30 years of political White-anting will be held at Taree RSL and Golf Club on Friday April 29, 2005 at 7pm sharp. From 6pm we will have written evidence on display which will confirm our statements.

Subjects to be covered-

1 The benefits and the down side of the Free Trade Agreement

2 Discover the truth about the bungling by Customs and Quarantine (AQIS) Ministers and their Bureaucrats.

Who should attend this Forum?

Those Australians who are concerned about the future of their families. The Forum will be chaired by the Voice of the Sydney Olympics and Para-Olympics and 2SM Talk-back Breakfast Host Grant Goldman.

Guest speakers will include:

• Linda Weiss is a professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Her work in the comparative International Politics of Economic Development has been translated into several languages. Linda is the author of four books including, The Myth of the Powerless State.

• Elizabeth Thurbon is a Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of NSW. She has published on the financial systems of East Asia and is collaborating on a large comparative project, researching Government Business Relations in the global economy.

• John Mathews is a professor of Strategic Management in the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University. He is the author of Tiger Technology and other studies on the rise of East Asia in the World Economy. His new book will focus on monopoly power in civilisations old and new.

These three guest speakers are the Co-authors of “How To Kill a Country” the devastating Free Trade Deal with the United States.

• Bob Spanswick 23 years a Customs Law Enforcement Officer, 12 years the Federal Secretary of his Association. Bob is well known to many for his guest appearances on the Today Show with Steve Liebmann and the Mike Walsh mid-day show. He speaks with professional authority on Border Security and Quarantine as well as the problems customs and quarantine Agencies will have re: the overseeing of the Free Trade Agreement.

• Phil Tzavellas, a regular on the Grant Goldman Breakfast Show. He is a spokesperson for the “voice of the People” Lobby Group who will explain how successive Governments in the past 30 years have White-anted Australia. The final guest will be none other than,

• John Macrae who will explain why the GST (Goods and Services Tax) should be abolished and replaced with a Transaction Tax which will benefit all Australians from labourers, Business owners and farmers, elderly pensioners and self funded retirees. For those Australians who are concerned with our unfair Tax system and looking for an improved replacement should not miss John’s translation of same.

AUSTRALIANS BETRAYED!

Terry McCrann the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Business Editor continues to be the big end of town’s mouth piece in lieu of what is beneficial for the future of the majority of ordinary Australians.

DOUBLE TAX HYPOCRISY

Treasurer Costello announced he’s going to get tough with state Labor Governments for Double Taxing. One could be forgiven for thinking the Federal Treasurer was having a puff or two of the “funny weed,” when you consider Mr. Costello introduced the Goods and Services tax (GST).

He also implemented levies of a 11 cents a litre on milk and 3 cents a kilo on sugar this was another form of taxation on Australian consumers.

Keating introduced a bi-annual Excise linked to the CPI on Fuel, alcohol and Tobacco. Mr. Costello’s government when in opposition were up in arms re: these excises and yet once they were elected did they rescind the excise act, NO – they embraced it.

It’s about time Australian kicked up a storm about the unfair taxes, levies and excises and replace them with a Transaction Tax System. Following are the benefits:

1. No more federal, State or Local Government Taxes, Levies, Excises or GST.

2. Very Little paperwork involved re: paying your 1 ½ % transaction tax.

3. With excises abolished, Fuel including Diesel will cost consumers less than 50 cents a litre.

4. Foreign Multi-Nationals who have paid little or no tax since 1953 will be compelled to pay their fair share of tax under the Transaction Tax System.

5. With excises abolished – fuel including Diesel will cost consumers less than 50 cents a litre, reducing costs across the board for goods that are Transported.

6. Foreign Multi-National who have paid little or no tax since 1953 under the “Dual Reciprocation Tax Agreement” will be compelled to pay their fair share of Tax instead of the Australian tax-payer being left to subsidies these business organizations.

THE GREAT TELSTRA LIE

Messrs. Howard, Costello, Anderson and Helen Coonan continue to reassure us, that if they fully sell off Telstra they will legislate to regulate the Telco to protect Rural and Regional Services. If it was possible for the Howard Government to force regulation on Multi-National buyers successfully, the Telco would be financially unviable.

We were placed in a similar position when Paul Keating guaranteed us that the sale of the “People’s Bank,” The Commonwealth would leave all Australian better off. Instead we had 50,000 workers were made redundant 2,000 branches were closed and in lieu of interest being paid on savings whereas if you have less than $2000 in your account you have to pay a $6 monthly administration fee.

But, where the banks really make a killing is when there’s a rise in interest rates which is applicable almost immediately to raise home loan rates, whilst failing to pass the rise on deposit rates, raking in millions, and yet the Howard-Anderson Coalition remain silent, whilst the banks continue to commit grand larceny and there will be no benefits to consumers when they sell Telstra, for the following reasons:

1 The introduction of timed phone calls

2 IT costs, will rise including equipment rental.

3 Consumers will be totally responsible for the costs in repairing faulty equipment. Which begs one to ask, how many technicians will be available to repair faults in rural and Regional Australia?

PS Mark Vaile federal trade minister will be represented by his senior trade adviser Andrew Ethell and Stephen Deady- first assistant secretary of the trade development division of the department of foreign affairs and trade.

TAREE FORUM

WHERE: TAREE RSL AND GOLF CLUB

DATE: FRIDAY, APRIL 29 2005

TIME: FROM 6PM--SHARP